To celebrate Valentine’s day, we picked our favourite love quotes:
I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.
— Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
I don’t want the world, I want you.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
He didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.
— Jenny Han, We’ll Always Have Summer
I love you right up to the moon - and back.- Sam McBratney, Guess how much I love you
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
– Joan Powers, Pooh’s Little Instruction Book
Meeting your soulmate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before.
– Jandy Nelson, I’ll Give You the Sun
You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.
– Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
– Sarah Dessen, The Truth about Forever
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
And then I did laugh, even though the future was a dangerous place, because I loved her, and she loved me, and the world was beautiful.
– Maggie Steifvater, Forever
Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.
– Lauren Oliver, Delirium
If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Did we miss any greats out? Email them to childrens.books@theguardian.com or share on Twitter @GdnChildrensBks and we’ll add as many as we can.
